With:
Lauren E. Johnston
Chris Damen
Christopher Costa
Ezioma Rosaline
Marjorie Johnson

The Woman Hater is best characterized as a sentimental comedy, but it contains elements of several other genres including gothic drama, farce and comedy of manners. The play shares many stylistic similarities with the satirical comedy, The Witlings, as well as plot similarities with her acclaimed novel, Evelina. Lady Smatter, the pretentious woman whose constant misquoting of famous authors is the source of much of the play’s humor, is a caricature of the intellectual women of the day.